Fiat Aims to Close Chrysler Deal Next Year

Fiat SpA's chief executive said he expected to complete the acquisition of Chrysler Group LLC next year, once the Italian auto maker reached a price agreement for the remaining stake in its U.S. unit.

"We will resolve it in 2014," Sergio Marchionne said at a forum Sunday in Fiat's hometown of Turin, where he was being interviewed by an editor of la Repubblica, the newspaper hosting the event. Fiat and a United Auto Workers union retiree trust that owns 41.5% of Chrysler disagree on the value of an option that...